Mar 23, 2018 TV Web Exclusive

Trust is the latest marquee show from FX, the home to many of the best marquee shows. Executive produced by Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire), the show tells the saga of the extremely rich and extremely odd Getty family. More

Mar 21, 2018 TV Web Exclusive

Barry Berkman, or should that be Barry Block, is a fish out of water not once, but twice. Bill Hader's title character in Barry, a show he also co-created and co-directs, is a Midwest army vet stuck in the daily grind of low rent hitmanning.  More

Mar 13, 2018 TV Web Exclusive

If Rise feels like Friday Night Lights meets Glee, that is because it has the former's executive producer Jason Katims and Hamilton's producer Jeffrey Seller as its pedigree. Rise shares part of its premise with Friday Night Lights in that it takes place in a small town where high school football rules supreme. More

Mar 09, 2018 TV Web Exclusive

At this time of high stakes and heightened bars within the vastly expanded and more competitive landscape of episodic television, the challenges for showrunners and writers to carve out an inviting realm where viewers are inclined to return must be daunting. More

Mar 01, 2018 TV Web Exclusive

Atlanta isn't like any other show on television. In fact, it's not really like any other show in TV history. That seems like hyperbole, but the way it breaks rules and paves its own path are wholly unique. It takes beats from previous media (David Lynch efforts, The Big Lebowski, and the funnier parts of The Wire all come to mind) but in ways that are unexpected nearly every time. More

Feb 23, 2018 TV Web Exclusive

Despite the name, McMafia comes with a distinct shortage of Scottish mobsters, and no interest in the competitive world of McDonalds franchising. Hossein Amini and James Watkins' glossy crime thriller is all about location, location, location, and nice suits. More

Sep 28, 2017 TV Web Exclusive

The revival of Will & Grace or Season 9, depending on how you want to look at it, feels like it picks up right where the show left off, 11 years later—which is also the title of the first episode—and that is not a disappointment.  More

Sep 26, 2017 TV Web Exclusive

Word on the street is that the '90s are back but in television it is the '80s that rule supreme. Yet another show whose timeframe is the last year of that decade, the year that the real-life Menendez Brothers' butchering of their parents crime took place.  More

Sep 25, 2017 TV Web Exclusive

All the characters on CBS's powerhouse comedy, The Big Bang Theory, tend to wax on about their childhoods. Over the course of the show's 10 seasons, their backstories have become as familiar as the tellers' endearing quirks.  More